House Committee to Hold Internet Gambling Hearing 6/8

[jschaud]

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THAT DEMENTIA RIDDEN OLD LADY IS A FREAKIN CONGRESSWOMAN?

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Don't be a pryck. She is 70 years old woman. She made a few very good points without talking fast and slick. Can you deal with that?

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She is awesome and on our side. She just seemed like she was lost there for a few seconds.

[Wynton]

Let me ask a question to all of you excited about how well this hearing is reportedly going:

Do you really believe that logic will have any effect on the voting?

[1p0kerboy]

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AWESOME HEARING!! We couldn't have gotten a better one.


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I agree. That went just about as well as it could have.

[BlackAndRed]

RELEVANT INDIVIDUALS -

Congresspeople -
Barney Frank - D; Chairman, supporter
Spencer Bachus - R; ranking member, opponent, moron
Steven Latourette - R; mild opponent, seems unsure
Ron Paul - R; supporter, pro free internet
Robert Wexler - D; supporter, constituents play mah jong
Julia Carson - D; supporter

Panel:

Balko, Radley, [Reason] Magazine, supporter - civil libs.
Colopy, Michael , Aristotle, supporter - internet security
Prideaux, Jon , Asterion, supporter - payment processing
Kitchen, Gerald , SecureTrading, sup. - payment processing
Schmidt, Jeff , Authis - neutral, skeptic on internet security
Hogan, Gregory , Pastor - opponent, son is a bank robber

[TMTTR]

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THAT DEMENTIA RIDDEN OLD LADY IS A FREAKIN CONGRESSWOMAN?

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Don't be a pryck. She is 70 years old woman. She made a few very good points without talking fast and slick. Can you deal with that?

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She is awesome and on our side. She just seemed like she was lost there for a few seconds.

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I just hit the ripe old age of 40 and I too get lost in the middle of a sentence sometimes and...

I forgot wheree I was going...

[1p0kerboy]

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Let me ask a question to all of you excited about how well this hearing is reportedly going:

Do you really believe that logic will have any effect on the voting?

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If we don't get the vote, we have still gained a ton of momentum for next time.

[aditya]

so wait, what happens now? When do the vote? and more importantly, when can I Play on Party?

[Richas]

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AWESOME HEARING!! We couldn't have gotten a better one.


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I agree. That went just about as well as it could have.

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It was only adjourned. What would the ideal witness list include for round 2. I would nominate the UK Gambling Commissioner.

[TheEngineer]

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AWESOME HEARING!! We couldn't have gotten a better one.

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Except it is on a Friday and no one is there -- almost off the radar. This issue is not front and center and it is going to take a lot of effort (hopefully by Rep. Frank and others) to keep this moving forward.

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No one ever attends these early hearings, actually. Better to pwn a Friday meeting than to tie a Tuesday meeting, I guess. I know the FOF folks will be in an uproar.

Yes, we have a lot of work to do. We're taken a few baby steps in a marathon, but at worst today's hearing goes a long way in helping us protect ourselves from Goodlatte expanding the Wire Act to include poker, as he vowed to do right after UIGEA passed. It also gets pretty much all of our arguments on the Congressional record.

[disjunction]

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Let me ask a question to all of you excited about how well this hearing is reportedly going:

Do you really believe that logic will have any effect on the voting?

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Well it can't hurt. <font color="white">(I think)</font>